DISCOVERING AMERICA AS IT IS , is a monumental study of the devastating effect American-style capitalism was already having on the American people during the so-called “boom” years of the Clinton era. It raises serious questions not only concerning America’s role as a leading model for development, but even as to its future capacity to compete due to the deterioration of its human capital resulting from anti-social domestic policies.

” The scope of the book is breathtaking, a sweeping survey, factually precise and philosophically provocative, which deserves to be compared to de Tocqueville’s 19th century classic. I hope it will be widely read. ” HOWARD ZINN